There is nothing worse than playing with a "trunk-slammer". You know, the guy that "gives up" sometime during the round, and usually lets the rest of the group know that he plans to quit. I've learned to ignore them, but I always found it to be dis-respectful to his/her playing partners. These guys obviously haven't learned the invaluable lesson that, in golf, you NEVER KNOW what is going to happen. I bogeyed the first 3 holes on day 1 of a club championship last week and still had a realistic chance to shoot 2-under on the front (I managed to miss 3 putts inside of 4 feet on the next 6 holes to turn at 1-over).
"No-show W/D's" on a subsequent day of a tournament are simply trunk-slammers that decided to save some gas money. And that always puts the tournament committee in a bind having to re-shuffle pairings, usually at the last minute.
CG
What the hell is wrong with people??? If I get kitchen clearance to play golf 3 days in a row, I don't care if I shoot 3 million . . . I'M PLAYIN' EVERY FREAKIN' DAY!!! Did somebody die or something? If a fool WD's because he don't "play up to his expectations" . . . he don't understand golf and he doesn't really LOVE golf. I mean come on it's the club championship . . . nobody REALLY cares. That's worse than a woman saying "I'm tired" or "I got a headache" or "I told you 4 times I don't take credit cards and take off that bunny suit!!!" Golf is going to kick your azz some . . . dorkballz need build a bridge and get over it. They just got EXPOSED by golf . . . soooooo what . . . it's a game.